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Three days afterward, a corpse was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. The body was swollen and decomposing, the skull smashed by blows and pierced by a bullet, and a heavy cotton-gin fan was lashed to the neck. Mose Wright said the body was that of his nephew. To the surprise of many Northerners, the Tallahatchie County grand jury promptly indicted two white men for murder: Roy Bryant, 24, storekeeper and ex-paratrooper, husband of the insulted woman; and his half brother, J. W. Milam...
...ride will be another day of body-jarring work in a career that has made him the No. 1 hero of Air Force men. Last year, riding an earlier version of the Sonic Wind, he reached a speed of 632 m.p.h., faster than the flight of a .45-cal. bullet, far faster than any earthbound man had ever traveled before. At the end of the run the sled went down from 632 m.p.h. to a dead stop in 1.4 seconds. As the sled decelerated, Colonel Stapp was subjected to more than 40 times the pull of gravity...
...sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...Stapp, 45, got aviation's annual Cheney Award for his contributions to space medicine. Dr. Stapp's most spectacular bit of research: setting a world land-speed record of 632 m.p.h. on a rocket-propelled sled (TIME, Jan. 10) while testing firsthand the reactions of airmen to bullet-swift speeds and brain-jarring stops...
...Yankees, hard put to find some of the midseason magic that made them champions five years in a row, are just beginning to demonstrate some of their old tricks. Patching, shifting, always finagling with his lineup, Manager Casey Stengel still manages to keep the Yankees in contention. In August, "Bullet" Bob Turley began to look like the pennant-winning pitcher he seemed to be when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts...